UConn's Thabeet opts out of workout

The Hall of Fame started a new tradition with an old-timer’s game at Doubleday Field in Cooperstown. “I think it’s a tradition the fans want to see, the nostalgia of the game,’’ said 90-year-old Bob Feller, who pitched to two batters. The Baseball Hall of Fame Classic came about to replace the annual Hall of Fame Game exhibition between major league teams. In the inaugural, Team Wagner beat Team Collins, 5-4, in seven innings (the teams were named after Hall of Famers Honus Wagner and Eddie Collins). Former Red Sox players participating included Bill Lee, Mike Timlin, and Lee Smith . . . Yankees pitcher A.J. Burnett’s suspension for throwing high and tight to Texas’s Nelson Cruz has been reduced to five games from six. Manager Joe Girardi said the suspension began immediately and will push back the righthander’s next start to Saturday against the Mets . . . Twins outfielder Denard Span is set to make two rehab appearances at Triple A Rochester and be activated from the disabled list when he becomes eligible Thursday. Span is on the DL with vestibular neuritis in his right ear . . . Twins starter Kevin Slowey (10-2), will have his next start pushed back to Saturday at St. Louis. Slowey tied a career high with four walks Friday against Houston while pitching through a stiff right side . . . Phillies closer Brad Lidge will make a rehab appearance tomorrow for Class A Clearwater. If his right knee holds up well, he is expected to be activated off the disabled list Wednesday . . . The Florida Marlins placed righthanded reliever Kiko Calero on the 15-day DL because of right shoulder inflammation.

Augie Garrido is the all-time winningest coach in Division 1 baseball and his Texas Longhorns open the College World Series best-of-three finals against LSU tonight in Omaha. Garrido, 70, is going for his sixth national title in a coaching career that spans 40 years. Texas will be playing for its seventh title, and third since 2002 . . . Yale’s elite eight and senior eight won titles on the final day of the Henley women’s regatta on the Thames River. The elite eight, which defeated the Leander Club to win the Sports Council Cup, won the race over the 1,500-meter course in a Henley record time of 4 minutes 40 seconds. The senior eight won the GP Jefferies Cup.

Dubious Miss drew away to win by 2 lengths over Spotsgone in the $60,747 feature race at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky. Ridden by Calvin Borel, who won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness aboard Mine That Bird and Rachel Alexandra, respectively, Dubious Miss tracked Spotsgone until slipping through along the inside leaving the backstretch . . . Jockey Eddie Castro tied a Monmouth Park record by riding six winners, including At the Disco in the $60,000 Bernie Dowd Handicap in Oceanport, N.J.

Michael Phelps won the 100-meter freestyle at the Canada Cup in Montreal. His time of 48.65 seconds improved on the 48.87 he swam one week earlier, when he finished second to defending world champion Brent Hayden of Canada in Santa Clara, Calif. The meet was Phelps’s final tune-up for the US nationals in Indianapolis July 7-11 . . . Fabian Cancellara won the Tour of Switzerland, beating Tony Martin of Germany in a 24-mile time trial to become the first Swiss cyclist since Alex Zuelle in 2002 to win the race . . . Lance Armstrong won the Nevada City Classic, a challenging one-day race in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Teammate Levi Leipheimer was third.